En 1977, Philippe Thomas (1951-1995) débute un travail qui se situe entre l’art et la littérature et qui conservera cette double dimension d’une œuvre procédant tant du voir que du lire. Il l’élabore en lui donnant une dimension narrative dont l’intermédialité, le réseau de ramifications intertextuelles et l’accumulation de travaux qui relèvent du dispositif construisent un récit à la forme discontinue. Participant d’une écriture des événements et s’appuyant sur une mise en parallèle de la présentation artistique et de l’énonciation, le projet de Thomas est celui d’une fiction du faire qui cherche à éprouver la frontière entre les mondes réel et fictionnel. Notre étude souhaite répondre aux objectifs d’une première monographie d’artiste et s’attache à décrire l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Thomas afin d’en reconstruire le parcours à l’aide d’un certain nombre de notions clés. Elle prend sa source dans la bibliothèque de cet artiste qui définit l’art comme un processus de recherche, comme une expérimentation du langage. C’est l’œuvre en train de se faire que nous observons, en nous intéressant à sa genèse et à ses conditions de réalisation. Et ce, afin de définir la posture d’auteur qui se dessine dans la spécificité d’une pratique artistique demandant la prise en compte tant de l’œuvre que de ses marges. Si le projet de Thomas met en place la disparition de l’auteur par le biais d’un protocole de signature de ses ready-mades, notre thèse rappelle qu’il s’agit d’une absence toute paradoxale : l’artiste caché par ses personnages demeure omniprésent et par là, participe de la redéfinition de l’auteur malgré la déclaration de sa mort une décennie plus tôt. / In 1977, Philippe Thomas (1951-1995) begins a practice situated between art and literature, and his works will conserve this dual dimension by proceeding both from the act of seeing and from the act of reading. Through intermediality, a network of intertextual offshoots, and an apparatus formed by the accumulation of works, he constructs a discontinuous narrative. Participating in event-based writing and relying on parallels between artistic presentation and enunciation, Thomas’ project is a fiction of making that seeks to test the frontier between real and fictional worlds. This study seeks to fulfill the need of a first monograph on the artist, and it describes the entirety of Thomas’ oeuvre so as to reconstruct his artistic career with the aid of a certain number of key notions. My first source is the library of this artist, who defines art as a research process like an experimentation of language. I observe the oeuvre as it is being constructed, by focusing on its genesis and on the conditions of its production. I do this in order to define an authorial posture shaped by the specificity of an artistic practice which requires consideration of both the works it produces and its margins. If Thomas’ project carries out the death of the author through a protocol of signatures of his readymades, my dissertation emphasizes that this is a paradoxical absence: the artist hidden by his personas remains omnipotent, participating in the redefinition of the author in spite of the declaration of his death a decade earlier.

Cette thèse relate la conception d'une entreprise artiste créée par l'auteur, artiste entrepreneuse, dans l'intention de témoigner des mutations des villes et des choix effectués en matière de conservation ou de destruction. Urban Memory, entreprise de« rechargement en contenu mnémonique », a vu le jour en 2012 à Dresde, capitale saxonne, bombardée en 1945. Située à l'est de l'Allemagne, cette ville est en constant chantier depuis des décennies. C'est par l'intermédiaire d'une pratique artistique mêlant la peinture et la sérigraphie avec des moyens de communication mis en scène dans l'urbain qu'Urban Memory entend rendre compte des transformations du paysage architectural et accompagner les débats autour de l'identité et la mémoire de la ville. Dans une première partie, l'auteur retrace son parcours de découverte et de réflexion sur Dresde au travers de premiers travaux ; présente le contexte historique, politique et économique des mutations ; puis nous livre une analyse des entreprises artistes à partir de laquelle elle a conçu Urban Memory, son mode de fonctionnement et ses stratégies. Dans une seconde partie, l'auteur nous guide dans le centre historique de Dresde, le long de ses monuments et mémoriaux, afin de souligner tantôt l'éloquence, tantôt le silence dont sont capables de tels édifices et installations dans la ville ; puis se tourne vers la scène artistique contemporaine et ses moyens de création d'une mémoire « vivante ». Enfin, après avoir mis en lien ses propres outils artistiques et le contexte de sa recherche, l'auteur nous révèle les premières réalisations et les projets d'installation in situ de son entreprise. / This thesis examines the author's conceptualization and establishment of an artist company with the objective of tracing urban transformations and of assessing decisions to conserve or destroy parts of the city. Urban Memory, a company that has as its goal the "recharging of mnemonic content," was founded in Saxony's capital city Dresden in 2012. Located in the east of Germany, this city, bombarded in 1945, has constantly been under construction in the past decades. Urban Memory takes account of the architectural landscape's transformations and accompanies debates about the identity and memory of the city. It does so by means of é hybrid form of artistic practices-painting and serigraphy-and communication media placed in the urban context. The first section of this thesis explores the artist's discovery and initial reflections on Dresden in the context of her first works; it explores the historical, political and economic context of the city's transformations; and it analyzes artist companies based on which Urban Memory has been conceived as well as its basic functional framework and strategic outlook. The second part zooms in on the historical center of Dresden, its monuments and memorial sites, so as to expose both the eloquence and silence with which the built environment of the city treats its past. Moreover, this part turns to the milieu of contemporary artists and their means of creating a 'living' memory. Finally, after having discussed and related the artistic dimension of her project, the author presents the company's first projects and in situ installations.

In this doctoral dissertation I examine the development of Kierkegaard's sense of vocation as a Christian creative artist by research into his journals and published works, as well as investigating how this was influenced by his scriptural hermeneutic. I then attempt to sketch some starting points for a theology of Christian creative artwork contextualised within modern theological aesthetics by drawing upon this examination. I argue that Kierkegaard began writing without documented reflection on his intentions and communicative methodology, but was nonetheless a religious author from the start of his career, as his text The Point of View for my Work as an Author later claimed. I trace how he began with a more "indirect" approach in his writing and gradually developed a theory of "indirect communication", though there were more "direct" elements present in his work from the beginning (the "first authorship"), yet as he continued in his authorial career he became ever more "direct" in his mode of communication (the "second authorship"), until it eventually became exclusively more "direct" religious writing (the "attack on Christendom"). I conclude that the most concise and complete formulation of Kierkegaard's mature conception of his task as a Christian artist becomes "to communicate Christianity in Christendom" in a more direct mode-to explain straightforwardly what authentic Christianity is in an age of cultural, purely nominal religion. I allow that this task is in some ways unique to his own historical situation but contend nonetheless that a consideration of it is profitable for contemporary theology because of the many different ways that he attempted to carry it out. In Kierkegaardian terms, and following on from resources in Kierkegaard and his use of scripture, I argue constructively from all of this that more "direct" communication is the more valuable form of communication to the Christian creative artist for theological reasons, but that more "indirect" communication can still be useful, in the task of communicating creatively through art.

Le travail artistique ne se construit pas sur une question préalable mais sur l’émergence toujours renouvelée de questions imprévisibles.L’oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa discrétion technique tire bien évidemment son titre du texte de Walter Benjamin L’oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproductibilité technique. Dans son texte, Benjamin essaie d’envisager les conséquences esthétiques et politiques de la reproductibilité technique. Nous essayons (modestement) de reposer la même question à l’heure du numérique.Cette question n’était pas donnée d’emblée. Elle est apparue dans le tressage complexe de la pratique. Dans ce tressage de problématiques apportées par la pratique elle-même, deux temps sont aujourd’hui visibles :- le temps de la reproductibilité technique, du livre d’artiste et du don ;- le temps de la discrétion, du numérique et de la disponibilité.Ces questions sont apparues de proche en proche et jamais selon un plan préétabli. Le travail d’analyse, n’est donc pas la recherche d’une stratégie ou d’un plan préexistant mais le relevé a posteriori d’un territoire découvert par une marche dans un pays inconnu.Ce tressage continu de la pratique et de la théorie est présent dans l’écriture même de la thèse. S’y mêlent à égalité des oeuvres plastiques, des textes littéraires, des articles, des manifestes et des écrits théoriques. / Artistic work is not built on a previous question but always renewed by the emergence of unforeseen issues.The Work of Art in the Age of Technical Discretion obviously takes its title from the text of Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In his text, Benjamin tries to consider the aesthetic and political consequences of technical reproducibility. We try (modestly) to ask the same question in the digital age.This question was not immediately given. It appeared in the complex braiding practice. In this weaving problems introduced by the practice itself, two times are now visible:- Time of technical reproducibility, artist’s book and gift;- The time of discretion, digital and availability.These questions have arisen step by step and not according to a predetermined plan. The analytical work, therefore, is not looking for a pre-existing strategy or plan, but the survey retrospectively territory discovered by a walk in an unknown country.This continuous braiding of practice and theory is in the writing of the thesis too. Mingle with equal plastic works, literary texts, articles, manifestos and theoretical writings.

Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul / The present Dissertation approaches a study about the artistic construction from the rescue of childhood memories. Its corpus concerns an autobiographic research, which have sought for elements from the long-term memory along with photographs and personal belongs stocked by the artist, enabling a reflection about mechanisms, restlessness and personal reflections in the face of the contemporary art practice. It is presented the poetic construction from artist s books and object books. Mentions about the metal engraving technical procedures are present in this study, since they are an active part of the process of building autobiographical elements from childhood memories. It was created ten works from this research, which were divided in: a unique work (artist s book) called Memory s album and other four series (artists book and object-books). They are: Ways, White Clouds in a Reddish Sky, The Hallway s Corner e The Toy Room. / A presente Dissertação aborda a construção artística a partir do recordar as memórias de infância. Trata-se de uma pesquisa autobiográfica que buscou elementos da memória de longo prazo em conjunção a fotografias e objetos pessoais guardados pela artista, de forma que possibilitassem refletir sobre os mecanismos, inquietações, e reflexões pessoais diante da prática artística contemporânea. Neste sentido, apresento a construção poética desenvolvida a partir de livros de artista e livros-objeto. Também faço menção aos procedimentos técnicos da gravura em metal, já que estes fazem parte ativa deste processo de construção de elementos autobiográficos reelaborados a partir de recordações de infância. Foram criados dez trabalhos a partir desta pesquisa, divididos em: um trabalho único (livro de artista) denominado Álbum de memórias e outras quatro séries (livros de artistas e livros-objeto), sendo elas: Caminhos, As nuvens brancas num céu rosado, O canto do corredor e O quartinho de brinquedo.

The aim of this study was to investigate the connection between an artists mental illness and his or her art and this was made with the artist Mathilde Wigert-Österlund (1873-1943) as an example. Wigert-Österlund was an artist who suffered from mental illness and was a patient at a mental institution during two periods throughout her life. After she became ill, she made textile artworks that have been considered to be products of her illness. To investigate if this is true or not and to understand Wigert-Österlunds means of expression, the study was based on the purpose that with Wigert-Österlund as example investigate the connection between mental illness and creative production and study the artist and the artists role as a social and cultural construction. This was done with the following questions: How did Mathilde Wigert-Österlunds artistic expression change when she became ill? What role did Wigert-Österlund take och recieve in the artistic field? And; what resemblances and differences were there between Wigert-Österlunds artworks and her contemporary textile art? The questions were answered with studies of literature and objects as material, together with a method of material culture. Theory of practice and a theory of the artist role were applied on the material and the results. The analysis shows that Wigert-Österlunds artistic expression primarily changed with her use of other techniques and materials than before and secondarily that she had a slight change in the choice of motif and especially symbols in her work. The works shows that Wigert-Österlund is to be considered as having the role of a melancholic artist due to the theory of the artists role. Her work had no distinct recemblances with the contemporary textile art but shows that she is considered to share habitus and expression with the artist group that were defined as painters. Wigert-Österlund and her textile artcan be considered as unique in the time they were made. The study also reveals that the groups within the field were changeable and that Wigert-Österlund and her variated expression made her belong to separate groups but that she might have identified herself with the one with highest social and cultural status. The study showed that there is a slight connection between mental illness and an artists expression and that an artist can correlate to an artistic role and at the same time be a production of and a construction of the society and its expectations connected to that construction.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyse unreliable narration and its motivation in the two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989) using the taxonomy of Zuzana Fonioková and James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin. In its theoretical part, this thesis explores the concept of unreliability in contemporary narratology, furthermore, it studies self-deception and memory, two phenomena essential for understanding the motivations for unreliable narration. The practical part consists of an analysis of the textual signals of unreliability, which proves the complexity of Ishiguro's narrative strategies. The thesis concludes that the climax of both the novels is created through the spelling out of the narrators' self-deception, which is the cause of their unreliability in the first place. KEYWORDS Kazuo Ishiguro, unreliable narration, self-deception, memory, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day

The theme of this thesis is to investigate the dimensions of extraversion-introversion as one of the fundamental characteristics of human personality. In the theoretical part, we are bringing a brief history of efforts to define and describe this dimension, and we also introduce some current concepts and appropriate diagnostic methods. Furthermore, in the theoretical part, we briefly focus on the specifics of personality dimensions of extraversion in the context of artistically creative personality. The aim of this work is not to contribute to answering the question about the existence of a relationship between the creative artistic process and a creator's introversion or extraversion. Artists are a psychologically widely studied group so we decided to use some specific knowledge about their extraversion or introversion in our research. The aim of the practical part of our thesis is to contribute to the search for the possible connections between personality theories of H. Rorschach and H. J. Eysenck. Both theories and methods (the Rorschach test and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - EPQ-R) are based on the neurobiological characteristics of the individual and typical ways of responding but they differ in their approach. H. J. Eysenck's assumption of rather less extraversion of artists, as well...

Du Bauhaus à De Stijl, du Constructivisme au Style international ou au Mouvement moderne, le modernisme historique n’aura pas seulement occupé les historiens de l’architecture et du design. Il est en effet devenu, depuis une vingtaine d’années, un objet d’investissement à part entière d'un grand nombre d'artistes de toutes provenances. Au tournant des années 2000, ce phénomène de références, d'évocations, de déplacements, de réappropriations, de mises à distance ou de célébrations, a pris une ampleur telle que de nombreuses expositions en Europe et en Amérique du Nord l'ont interrogé, en le réduisant toutefois le plus souvent à une mouvance ruiniste, empreinte de nostalgie, qui n'est pas confirmée par une étude attentive des œuvres. Loin de toute vaine prétention à l’exhaustivité, notre recherche a opté pour une focale centrée sur les œuvres. Au risque d’un peu de myopie où pourrait sembler se perdre une conscience globale du phénomène historique traité, le parti est ici pris d’analyser individuellement les pratiques. L’étude des divers cas retenus conduit à différentes hypothèses et lectures, qu'on espère inédites. Si tous les travaux analysés ont en commun de se référer au modernisme, de prendre celui-ci pour objet à travers telle ou telle de ses réalisations, on verra qu’il est impossible de conférer un sens unitaire à pareil tropisme. L'indispensable proximité avec les œuvres aura ainsi permis de prendre non pas l’unique mais les mesures plurielles d’un phénomène qui aura indéniablement marqué la création artistique des dernières décennies, et continue de la marquer. / From Bauhaus to De Stijl, from Constructivism to the International Style or the Modern Movement, historical modernism has kept more than architecture and design historians busy. In fact, in the last twenty years, it has become a focus of investment in its own right for a large number of artists from all walks of life. At the turn of the century, this phenomenon of references, evocations, displacements, reappropriations, distancing or celebrations took on such a magnitude that many exhibitions in Europe and North America addressed it. However, it was primarily reduced to a ruinist movement, full of nostalgia, which is not discerned by a careful study of the works. Without pretense of being exhaustive, our research has chosen to focus on the works. At the risk of being slightly myopic, where a global consciousness of the historical phenomenon treated might seem lost, we seek to analyze individual practices. The study of the various cases selected leads to different hypotheses and readings, which we hope are novel. If the common thread of all the analyzed works is to refer to modernism, to take it as object through one or other of its achievements, we will see that it is impossible to confer a unitary meaning on such tropism. The indispensable proximity to the works will thus make it possible to take not the exclusive but the plural measures of a phenomenon that will undoubtedly mark the artistic creation of the last decades, and continues to mark it.

The thesis deals with contemporary author's law which is effective in Czech republic in relation to a piece of music and its legal protection. The goal of first chapters is to outline the crucial statutes concerning subjects as authors, executive artists and recording producers. A great deal of the thesis concerns with internet music piracy which results from a mass file-sharing. It also includes an evalution of current author's law and its efficiency in today's information society.